UNIT 10. THE TERTIARY SECTOR

1.              Explain the tertiary sector.

2.              Explain the ‘tertiarization’ of economies in developed countries. Long answer.

3.              Who are services providers?

4.              What are the differences between traditional and advanced services?

5.              Mention the factors of dominance of the service sector in developed countries.

6.              Explain the tertiarization of industries.

7.              Why have services of developed countries been outsourced?

8.              What percentage of European jobs could be outsourced in the future?

9.              What are the Indian advantages to receive those jobs?

10.           What is the transport?

11.           Explain that is infrastructure.

12.           What are the economic functions of transport?

13.           What is the transport network? What elements form it?

14.           Name the types of transport networks.

15.           Explain the transport networks in developed countries.

16.           Explain the transport networks in less developed countries.

17.           Name the transport systems.

18.           What are the main disadvantages of road transport?

19.           Explain the rail transport.

20.           Look at the map. What towns must you cross in a rail trip from Chicago to El Paso? Name them.

21.           Look at the map. What part of United States has more roads?

22.           Look at the map. Name the main ports in Europe in alphabetical order.

23.           Look at the map. What continent has more main ports?

24.           Look at the map. What is the ocean with more commercial shipping routes?

25.           Why is the water transport less developed in Spain than in other European countries?

26.           Why are the airports very large and they occupy so much space?

27.           Why are the airports transport nodes?

28.           Where are the main air transport nodes located? Why?

29.           What European countries have more than 500 airports?

30.           What country in the world has the most airports?

31.           What is the first city in the world by total movements of freight and passengers?

32.           What is the first city in Europe by total movements of freight and passengers?

33.           What is attracted by the airports?

34.           What is trade?

35.           What are the main elements of trade?

36.           Explain domestic trade.

37.           Who is a wholesaler?

38.           Who is a retailer?

39.           What is foreign trade?

40.           What are imports?

41.           What are exports?

42.           What is the balance of trade?

43.           When is the balance of trade positive?

44.           When is the balance of trade negative?

45.           What are the main exports of developed countries?

46.           What are the main exports of less developed countries?

47.           Look at map 8. What are the main buyers of EU products? Think it.

48.           What is tourism?

49.           How was tourism before the mid-twentieth century?

50.           What are the three phases in development of contemporary tourism?

51.           What is the most common type of tourism?

52.           What are the reasons for the rapid growth of tourism in developed countries? Explain it.

53.           Mention the positive effects of tourism.

54.           Mention the negative effects of tourism.

55.           How are the jobs in the tourist sector?

56.           What are the main environmental impacts of tourism?

57.           Look at the map about world tourism. How many people visit China?

58.           Look at the map about world tourism. How many people visit Italy?

59.           Look at the map about world tourism. How many people visit France?

60.           Look at the map about world tourism. How many people visit Spain?

61.           Look at the map about world tourism. How many people visit United States?

10. THE SECOND WORLD WAR

1.             What was the function of League of Nations?

2.             What was the Diktat. Long explanation.

3.             What were the effects of the Great Depression?

4.             Name the factors that increased world tensions in the 1930s.

5.             Explain the protectionism during the Great Depression.

6.             What did the Treaty of Versailles say about German Rhineland?

7.             What was Hitler’s first measure that broke the Treaty of Versailles?

8.             What were the objectives of expansionist countries in the 1930s?

9.             Explain the policy of appeasement.

10.         What actions could League of Nations enforce?

11.         What countries abandoned the League of Nations? Write them in chronological order.

12.         What Tintin’s adventure occurs during Japanese invasion of Manchuria? Investigate it. Maybe four points.

13.         What is the present day name of Abyssinia?

14.         When was the battle of Adwa? Investigate it.

15.         Fill in this chart.

 

Date	Attacker	Invaded country
1931
	Mussolini
		Czechoslovakia

 

16.         What was the Sudetenland?

17.         Explain fully the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

18.         What event began the Second World War?

19.         What countries were swallowed by the USSR in 1939? Look at the drawing.

20.         What were the opposing sides in the Second World War?

21.         What were the Axis Powers?

22.         What were the Allied Powers?

23.         Explain the blitzkrieg.

24.         What countries were occupied by Germany between 1939 and 1941?

25.         What was the main objective of the Afrika Korps. Investigate it.

26.         Explain the attack on Pearl Harbor.

27.         Look at the left map. What European countries were neutral during Second World War?

28.         Look at the left map. What European countries were Axis allies during Second World War?

29.         Look at the left map. What Mediterranean islands were British colonies during Second World War?

30.         Look at the left part. What part of Czechoslovakia was annexed to the Third Reich?

31.         What was the Anschluss. Investigate it.

32.         The battle of Stalingrad was an allied decisive victory. Explain it.

33.         Where and when was the Afrika Korps defeated? Explain it.

34.         What naval battle was the end of the high tide of Japanese expansion?

35.         Look at the right map. What two large islands are near from Guadalcanal?

36.         What year was the Italian peninsula invaded?

37.         Explain the Normandy Landings.

38.         When did the Second World War end in Europe?

39.         When did the Second World War end in Asia?

40.         What were the reasons for Japan’s surrender?

41.         Explain the Franco-Hitler meeting in Hendaye.

42.         What internal problems prevented the Spanish participation in the Second World War? Name them.

43.         What was the Spanish maquis? Investigate it.

44.         What was the worst internal problem? Give your opinion.

45.         Spain was a non-belligerent country during the Second World War. How did Franco support Nazi Germany?

Unit 9. The EU secondary sector

1.             What are the main problems in the European mining sector?

2.             What are the effects of problems in the European mining sector?

3.             Look at the diagrams. What European country is the principal producer of energy minerals?

4.             Look at the diagrams. What country is the second largest producer of crude oil in Europe?

5.             Look at the map. How many people work in the industry in Spain? Say it in millions, please.

6.             Look at the chart. What is the most industrialized EU country?

7.             Look at the chart. What position does Spain occupy on the chart?

8.             What percentage of EU population work in industry?

9.             What are the most important EU industries?

10.         Why is industrial employment decreasing in Western Europe?

11.         How is the industry in Eastern Europe today?

12.         What are the challenges facing EU industries?

13.         What are the results of co-operation between EU enterprises?

14.         What mining products are not sufficient to cover Spain’s needs?

15.         Why does Spain have a shortage of energy resources?

16.         What is the most-consumed energy in Spain? What countries are our suppliers?

17.         What is the situation of nuclear energy in Spain?

18.         Why had Spanish coal production declined in the last years?

19.         Look at the map. Mention in alphabetical order the Spanish towns with refineries.

20.         Look at the map. What Spanish nuclear plants are closed?

21.         Look at the map. From which Spanish town does the pipeline with Algerian oil come?

22.         Look at the diagram. What renewable energy was most consumed in Spain in 2010?

23.         Look at the diagram. What renewable energy was least consumed in Spain in 2010?

24.         Look at the time line. Why did the industrial process begin later in Spain than in Great Britain or France?

25.         Look at the time line. Where was Spanish industry concentrated at the beginning of 20^th century?

26.         Look at the time line. When did Spanish industry recover from Spanish Civil War destructions?

27.         Look at the time line. What were the Spanish industry weak points at 1970?

28.         Look at the time line. Explain the Spanish industry second restructuring at 1990s.

29.         Look at the map 13. What are the Spanish communities most industrialized?

30.         Look at the map 13. What are the Spanish communities least industrialized?

31.         Look at the map 13. In which products is Andalusian industry specialized?

32.         Look at the map 12. What are the Spanish large industrial centers?

33.         Look at the map 12. What is the name of industrial region from Girona/Gerona to Murcia?

34.         Look at the map 12. What is the name of industrial region from Bilbao to Barcelona?

35.         Look at the map 12. What are the areas of urgent reindustrialization in Spain?

36.         How could Spain modernize its industries in 1980s and 1990s?

37.         What are the weaknesses of Spanish industry?

38.         Is Spain an industrial power? Why?